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Mac OSX Snow Leopard Compatibility
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Alien Skin
In some cases, upgrading to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard causes the activation data for recent Alien Skin products to be lost. This can cause error messages to appear when you try to run the plug-in, or for the product to revert to trial mode. The key issue is that you should deactivate Blow Up, Bokeh, or Snap Art before upgrading to Snow Leopard.
If you have already upgraded to Snow Leopard and your product has reverted to trial mode, please try to activate again. If you are running Blow Up 2 or Bokeh and are receiving an activation related error message, please update to the latest version and try to activate again.
If you have not yet run the Snow Leopard upgrade, we suggest that you deactivate Blow Up 2, Bokeh, and Snap Art 2 before you run the Snow Leopard upgrade process. Once the upgrade completes, you should be able to successfully reactivate your products.
Automatic Duck
- Automatic Duck All Automatic Duck plug-ins work on Snow Leopard
Avid
Avid's Media Composer and Symphony software now support Snow Leopard OS X
Boris FX
The following Boris FX products support Snow Leopard:
- Boris Continuum Complete 6.0.4 FxPlug: a free update for BCC 6.x FxPlug customers
- Boris Continuum Complete 6.0.3 AE: a free update for BCC 6.x AE customers
- All Boris Continuum Units support Mac OS X Snow Leopard
- Boris Final Effects Complete 5.0.2 FxPlug: a free update for FEC 5.x FxPlug customers
- Boris Final Effects Complete 5.0.1 AE: a free update for FEC 5.x AE customers
- Boris RED 4.3.4: a free update for RED 4.x customers
- Boris FX 9.3.4: a free update for Boris FX 9.x customers
- Boris Graffiti 5.3.4: a free update for Graffiti 5.x customers
CGM
All CGM plugins are fully compatible with Snow Leopard, including
- CGM Aged Film LE - A free Plug-in to create an aged film look in Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express.
- CGM DVE Complete - 136 filters, transitions and generators for use in Final Cut Pro and Final Cut Express
CoreMelt
CoreMelt V2 Products version 2.2.2 support Snow Leopard with FCP 7 / Motion 4 and are a free update for all V2 customers.
For AE CS3 and CS4 customers, there is a problem with v2 in AE CS3/CS4. For more information, please see http://www.coremelt.com/support/v2/snow-leopard-compatibility.html
Digieffects
All Digieffects products are compatible with Snow Leopard.
Digital Film Tools
All Digital Film Tools products are compatible with Snow Leopard.
GenArts Sapphire
Compatible with Snow Leopard
Imagineer
Snow Leopard is now supported in all products.
Maxon
- Maxon Cinema 4D v11.5 compatible right out of the box, no patches needed.
Media 100
Media 100 Suite Version 1.0.2 is now available. Version 1.0.2 introduces official support for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and adds support for Matrox's MXO2 Mini for affordable HD HDMI and analog I/O.
Nattress
Heard from a customer that all plug-ins work, but this hasn't been confirmed by Nattress.
Noise Industries
- Running FxFactory inside Final Cut Studio on Snow Leopard - Noise Industries FxFactory 2.0.9 has been successfully tested with Final Cut Studio running on Mac OS X 10.6. Our users should be able to upgrade to Snow Leopard and enjoy their FxFactory plug-ins inside Final Cut Pro and Motion without issues.
- Running FxFactory inside After Effects on Snow Leopard - The FxFactory 2.1 update fixes issues with AE on Snow Leopard.
Oak Street Software
- Oak Street Software VKey works fine in Snow Leopard.
Red Giant
| AE CS4 | PPro CS4 | Final Cut Pro | Motion | |
| Composite Wizard | • | |||
| Datamator | No | |||
| Image Lounge | • | |||
| Key Correct Pro | • | • | • | |
| Knoll Light Factory 2.5.5 | • (bug) | No | • | |
| Magic Bullet Colorista | • | • | No | |
| Magic Bullet Frames | • (bug) | • | ||
| Instant HD 1.1 | • (bug) | No | • | • |
| Instant HD Advanced | • | |||
| Magic Bullet Looks | • (bug) | • | • | • |
| Magic Bullet Quick Looks | • | • | • | • |
| Magic Bullet Steady | • | • (bug) | ||
| PlaneSpace | • | |||
| Primatte Keyer 4 | • | • | • | |
| Psunami | • | • | • | |
| Radium Glow | • | No | • | • |
| ReSizer | • | No | • | • |
| Text Anarchy | • | • | • | |
| ToonIt 2 | • | • | • | • |
| Warp | • | • | • | • |
SmartSound
Sonicfire Pro 5.1 is compatible with Snow Leopard.
Synthetic Aperture
- Color Finesse 2.1.11 is compatible with Snow Leopard.
- Test Gear 2.0.1 is already Snow Leopard compatible.
Tiffen
Tiffen Dfx v2 Digital Filter Suite is compatible.
Trapcode
| AE CS4 | PPro CS4 | Final Cut Pro | Motion | |
| 3D Stroke 2.5 | • | • | • | No |
| Echospace 1.0.2 | • | |||
| Form | • | |||
| Horizon | • | |||
| Lux 1.0.2 | • | |||
| Particular 1.5.1 | • | |||
| Shine 1.5 | • | • | • | No |
| Sound Keys 1.1.3 | • | |||
| Starglow 1.5 | • | • | • | • |
Notes about After Effects in Snow Leopard
After Effects CS4 on Snow Leopard requires 9.0.2 update
After Effects CS4 (9.0.0) on Snow Leopard doesn't work well with Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously multiprocessing. You must update to After Effects CS4 (9.0.2) if you are going to use Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously multiprocessing on Snow Leopard. (Source: [After Effects Region of Interest http://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2009/08/after-effects-cs4-and-snow-leo.html]
Deactivating before upgrade
Note that you need to deactivate CS4 applications (or just one CS4 application if you are using a suite) before upgrading to Snow Leopard, as you'll need to reactivate after the upgrade (the OS version is somehow linked to the activation).
If you already have used all your reactivation credits (you get two), you'll need to call Adobe support. When you get through, getting a new activation credit is a matter of seconds. (Source: Joost Vanderhoeven, After Effects Region of Interest
